I can’t help feeling at a time when it’s clear that more people are reading news online and the circulation of newspapers is declining, that The Sun is investing in an already declining market by going live this weekend with their first Sunday newspaper. I blogged last year about the Times’ paywall and how it affected the shear numbers of people that suddenly were banned from reading the articles published on thetimes.co.uk Website. I was amongst hundreds of thousands who never returned. Convinced that the “content is more important than the delivery” the leaders at The Times insisted that all readers need to be paying a fee for the news it provides. Overnight the readership was slashed to a fraction of its original traffic. And… Read the Rest »
At a time when so many businesses are struggling why is it that some survive and others prosper? Is it the economy? Is it the climate? Well the environment is obviously going to have an effect on potential performance, but its not the cause. It’s human error that usually delivers the killer blow. Ironically the economic environment suffers due to human error too. If it’s raining outside and you go out in your underwear, you are going to catch a cold. If you stay out ill equipped for the elements, more serious things will happen. This is exactly what happens in business. Common sense plays a big part. If you go on a spending spree when your bank account is looking full, but you have… Read the Rest »
I am not sure how I really arrived there. Something inside of me should have set off an alarm before we started across the ledge. It can be dangerous at the best of times, with a 600 metre drop to our left and perilous winds that change direction in an instant, however the snow and ice should have been enough for me to call a halt to the exercise. It might be something about not wanting to give up, everyone had tried so hard to get this far and I was determined to help them to the top. I have climbed Snowdon hundreds of times and I have never seen the ground ice over to such extent where even the gravel was an ice rink… Read the Rest »
It was the summer of 1990. I just turned 21. I was sat at a piano in Menlo College Campus in California, whiling away an afternoon on an 8ft concert grand that had seen better days. It was a creative place for me and whilst it was mid holidays and the majority of students were on vacation, I really got a sense that I was in a special place. I had a great summer and made some lifelong friends and although I considered moving there, I was fundamentally a musician and back then, wild horses would have not dragged me from my vocation. I never realised just how important Palo Alto was going to be in the technical revolution that followed. With Stanford University on its… Read the Rest »
